The 4th Annual 804noise Southeastern Experimental & Noise Festival 2006 is shaping up nicely. [ http://804noise.org/fest/ ] The 804noise Fest is a two day experimental, noise, avant-garde & multi-media event held each year in Richmond, Virginia showcasing local experimental & noise talent along side some of the best in the international noise community. This years festival will fall on Saturday Octboer 14th [Public Guilt & Housepig Record Label Showcase] & Sunday October 15th [Main Event & Label Expo].

The 804noise Richmond Experimental Collective consists of artists & enthusiasts dedicated to making the Richmond community more receptive to experimental, noise, and avant-garde art/ideas. The 804noise Festival serves as an opportunity for these artists and enthusiast and new participants to challenge themselves and allow everyone the opportunity to interact with eachother in an environment that is condusive to change; where ideas can be shared and then realized.

:::: Day One ::::

:::: Saturday October 14th, 2006 :::: Record Label Showcase ::::

Day one of the 804noise Festival will be a FREE event with FREE Vegan fare (courtesy of Ellwood Thompsons Natural Market], focusing on two experimental and noise record labels. The Baltimore based Public Guilt Records [ http://publicguilt.com ] and the Twin City/Minneapolis based Housepig Records [ http://housepig.com ].

Art Space [http://www.cvco.org/arts/artspace/]
Zero E. 4th St
Richmond, VA 23224
ArtSpace #:804.232.6464
804noise #:804.317.1938
5:00pm - 11:00pm
FREE

Showcase #1 [Housepig Records]

::::LHASA SHORE LEAVE
[website][ http://www.myspace.com/lhasashoreleave ]
[mp3][ http://www.housepig.com/audio/02.%20Dikku.mp3 ]
[mp3][ http://www.housepig.com/audio/03.%20Stunning%20Tilapia.mp3 ]
Lhasa Shore Leave is a project of Richmond's Dave Saulnier. He blends processed sounds and conventional instruments into a strong droning blend reminiscent of Vibracathedral Orchestra or Sunroof! Aquarius Records called his debut ep "a gorgeous little slab of droning free rock shimmer, twenty minutes of keening, pealing, warm and warbling, fuzzy foggy dream like bliss." He is currently preparing a second release for Housepig.

::::OBLONG BOX
[website][ http://housepig.com ]
[mp3][ http://www.housepig.com/audio/00.%20The%20Fog%20(Maritime%20I).mp3 ]
[mp3][ http://www.housepig.com/audio/00.%20Pussyfooting.mp3 ]
Oblong Box focuses on the dark, atmospheric end of the noise spectrum, creepy subterranean tones and eerie ambience. Releases have appeared from Housepig and the Fargone Records "Mugshots" series, with upcoming works including another Housepig e.p., a compilation track for Public Guilt records, and a collaborative track with Bastard Noise for their "Our Earth's Blood 4" release.

::::JUHYOo

Showcase #2 [Public Guilt Records]

::::MAGICICADA (Atlanta, GA)
[website][ http://www.magicicada.com/ ]
[mp3][ http://publicguilt.com/magicicada-cause.mp3 ]
MAGICICADA is the musical life of Atlanta musician/sound designer/photographer, Christopher White. Since 1999, Mr. White has been recording and performing non-stop. Each MAGICICADA show is distinct and unique, ranging from only voice and effects to multi-instrumental performances w/ collaborators. “Everyone is Everyone” is an organic, experimental work that blends traditional, as well as folk and eastern, instruments with found objects, samplers and field recordings to create a work that varies from delicate soundscapes to harsh electronic environments. The instrumentation includes (but is not limited to): pump organ, voice, contact mics on faulty electrical lines, melodica, toys, iron balls rolling on wooden floors, accordion, cellophane, air cans, tape decks for the blind, guitar, shruti box, MARTA (Atlanta’s public transit), synths, oven door (percussion,) cellos, zurna, paper, frogs in the backyard, and the remains of Hurricane Denis shaking the roof.

::::DARSOMBRA (Baltimore, MD)
[website][ http://www.darsombra.com ]
[mp3][ http://www.meatjack.com/darsombra/darsombra%20-%20thinning%20the%20herd.mp3 ]
Darsombra is the solo brainchild of Brian Daniloski (member of Baltimore's avant-metal outfits Meatjack & Trephine). Leaving Meatjack & Trephine's sonic personas behind, darsombra create not a metal, but an ether. Though at times harsh and bleak, the music is ambient over hardcore - well crafted noise, over well crafted metal. Crushing hums or lullful drones of the guitar provide the backbone, as Brian layers on ethereal soundscapes, feedback or field recordings. To experience darsombra is to take an astral journey into the depths of an unexplored cave, dark and mysterious, without light as we know it, to float through realms fearful yet fascinating, to be surrounded by blackness. It is the sort of thing you seep into, you experience, you absorb, and which absorbs you.

::::DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS (Queens, NY)
[website][ http://www.destructoswarmbots.com/ ]
[mp3][ http://publicguilt.com/DS-HI.mp3 ]
Destructo Swarmbots creates reactionary and immediate music. Their music finds itself in opposition to conventional wisdom. Their creative output is formed in the present with no acknowledgment of the past or future temporal frameworks. No thought. No preparation. No wrong notes. Here. Now.

Destructo Swarmbots is Mike Mare and James O'Brien with a rotating line-up of auxiliary players, so a DS show could be a solo act or it could as many as five people on stage with any given assortment of instrumentation. Each show is unique.

Destructo Swarmbots has released a limited edition, s/t tour only CDr, a full length entitled "“2"” on creepydogeyes, and "The Mountain EP" on Public Guilt. DS has also completed remixes for ISIS, Trephine, Genghis Tron, and Branta ÏX and scored the soundtrack for the film 'Satanic Suicide Slumber Party.' DS recently completed a collaboration with NJ avant hip-hop giants, Dälek, which will be released as a 12"” pic disc and CD in early 2007 by Public Guilt. Also in the works are collaborations with Japan'’s Guilty Connector and Atlanta'’s Magicicada.

:::: Day Two::::

:::: Sunday October 15th, 2006 :::: Main Event & Label Expo ::::

Day two of the 804noise Fest will be met with over 20 artists performing between 11am to 11pm. There will be free vegetarian and vegan food served between 4:00pm & 5:00pm. An adjacent room will be dedicated to the wares of record labels, magazines, and other grass roots organizations.

Art Works [ http://artworksrichmond.com ]
320 Hull St
Richmond, VA 23224
804noise #: 804.317.1938
11:00am - 11:00pm
$8

[Out of Town Artists]

::::Trockeneis (Baltimore, MD)
[website][ http://www.ehserecords.com/releases.html ]
From the den of pre-scientific iniquity in which Baltimore sound actors thrive on non-planning, the stately emergence of professional harsh acousticians in five-part harmony, a brash romp through the New Frictionalism, The New Spectralism, and The New Ritualism. Bowing. Rubbing. Scraping. Squealing. Squeaking. Screeching. Moaning. Silence. Anything else. Nothing else. Sound fixations waiting to unfix in the act of observation/measurement. Go ahead, measure them. Then flip to side B and watch your numbers float away in a muddy stream of ink. All sounds were made without electricity. It's portable music. You can easily move from now to the time when there was no emotion, just its precursors of permanently lingering urgency. Paul Neidhardt, Catherine Pancake, Dan Breen, and Andy Hayleck caress their idiophones until they're lost in backporch lullabies of terror. Audrey Chen's voice also gets lost, swallowed by its mechanical half-kin and trapped into the shadow world of forbidden overtones. In the center we find a steaming hunk of dry ice, hosting the sounds of molecular frenzy at the interface of hot and cold. Metal. Wood. H2O. Larynx. Danger. Safety. They say it's built into the limbic system.

::::Synnack (Fairfax, VA)
[website][ http://www.synnack.com ]
[website][ http://myspace.com/synnack ]
Synnack fuses elements of ambient, noise, and IDM ("Intelligent Dance Music") musical styles with new media performance mediums. Musically, synnack has been compared to a combination of the Dada/Futurist audio experimentation and chance methodologies implored by John Cage in the early 20th century, and the rythmic and melodic components of more contemporary audio artists such as Coil, and Autechre. Live, synnack consists of 2 musicians using a combination custom computer environments to remixed and manipulated audio at fundamental levels while on stage. Though computer generated, synnack is said to sound strangely organic and no two synnack performances are the same. Visit synnack.com for more information and free synnack release downloads.

::::Ben Owen, Scott Allison, & MPLD Trio (Brooklyn, NY / Washington, D.C.)
[website][ http://benowen.org ]
[website][ http://www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld/ ]
The focus of mpld's exploration is on the relationships that can be established between sound, light and space, considered in their phenomenological and conceptual dimensions. Memory, territory, identity and the sense of belonging are recurring themes, approached trough the use of various found materials that are assembled combining analog empiricism with the abstraction of digital hyperreality.

Ben Owen: Installation, weekly radio program sounds captured the practice continues to explore these ideas as relating to listening, response, and performance.

::::Myo (Baltimore, MD)
[website][ http://myosound.com ]
Cory O'Brien (b. 1980) has been experimenting with computers in music since 1996, and since 2002, has been recording and performing improvised electro-acoustic music as Myo. His live sets include manipulated field recordings, homemade instruments, diy software tools, and analog synthesizers; creating a dense field of katamari blips, atonal drones, and ultra high pitched UFO landing communications. He has toured the east coast, performs regularly in Baltimore, DC, and surrounding areas; and has released music on SocketsCDR and MT6 Records.

::::Ironing (Talahasee, FL)
[website][ http://myspace.com/ironing ]
Ironing is interested in manipulating and recontextualizing autobiographical sound sources, altering them through lo-fi analog processes. Creation through destruction, sound as fodder for building something new. Experiences gathered aurally via microcassettes get pitch shifted and turned to clangy muck, collaged with beats and noise via physically altered vinyl, reel to reel and cassette tapes run backwards and speed manipulated, radio channeled at random, and microphone feedback and vocalizations. The sonic architecture of dead media. Tempermental analog machines are coaxed into giving at least a few more hours of service before inevitably dying mid-show. The things you cannot plan for are the ones which oftentimes present the greatest opportunities. Chance is a blessing. Current and forthcoming releases available on Hymns, Sounds From the Pocket, Stentorian Tapes, Bored Weapons, and Sloth Jinni.

::::Carlos Giffoni (Brooklyn, NY)
[website][ http://carlosgiffoni.com ]
The Brooklyn noise boss, Carlos Gifoni is "Total Analog Synth Destruction". Has collaborated with anyone that matters, curates the annual No Fun Fest [ http://nofunfest.com ] and will be touring Japan in september for a tour that will include two collaboration sets with Merzbow and one with Jim O'Rourke, and has nicer hair than you.

::::Prurient (Brooklyn, NY)
[website][ http://hospitalproductions.com ]
Prurient Biography by Jon Borges of Pedestrian Deposit/Monorail Trespassing Born in 1997, Prurient is a noise outfit conceived by Dominick Fernow. In terms of sound, emphasis is placed on processed vocals, organic electronics, field recordings, and heavy use of feedback. The meaning of the word ‘prurient’ an obsessive/unhealthy lewd interest (sometimes sexual), Fernow’s intent – conceptually – is a recontextualization of this original meaning; applied to such mundane imagery as furniture, interior architecture, religious iconography – hence an unhealthy interest in everyday life.

In a live situation, the project is at it’s most confrontational with a ‘bliztkreig attack’ of physical contortions, body response to feedback and guttural vocalization ranging from 1 – 20 minutes. Not an attack on the audience, but an attack on himself that the audience is witnessing. The end result is a rich, minimal, piercing sound, both physically and aurally – creating an atmosphere reminiscent of the old school ‘industrial noise’ pioneers, something few have been able to reproduce in this digitally occupied age.

Based in Brooklyn, New York Fernow also operates Hospital Productions, one of the more remarkable noise labels active today with releases by, Hair Police, Kevin Drumm, Double Leopards, The New Blockaders, Macronympha, and Controlled Bleeding to name a few.

Prurient has toured the USA extensively with Hair Police, Air Conditioning, Emil Beaulieau, Kites and more. This fall will mark the beginning of a five week USA tour with acclaimed Wolf Eyes.

Not only having performed with such acts as Lightning Bolt, Jazzkammer, Borbetomagus, Aaron Dilloway, Sightings, Dropdead, Randy Yau, Nunslaughter, Mindflayer, Skin Crime, Anenzaphalia, Deutch Nepal, Der Blutharsch, Inertia, Terrorfakt, White Mice, Usaisamonster, Sudden Infant, Noxagt, Necronomitron, Taint, Monotract, Pita, Burning Star Core, Double Leopards, Mouthus, Majik Markers, and more, but a recent series of live and studio collaborations with Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore continues.

With previous releases on Load Records, Armageddon Label, RRR, Bulb!, Groundfault Recordings, American Tapes, This fall will mark the release of ‘Black Vase’ CD/2xLP – Fernow’s second offering on Load. Future plans include material for Important Records, Hanson, and Troubleman Unlimited.”

[Visual Artists]

::::Rebecca C. Adams
Rebecca C. Adams – Sculptor and electroacoustic composer whose most recent body of work, Instinct (2005) explores the sonic characteristics (pitch, timbre, amplitude) of scale, texture, form, color, and material. The installation is a trio of sonic sculptures that integrates organic and ephemeral media with found objects and readymades to establish a corporeal presence within memory, history, or narrative. The featured piece Feedback (2005) investigates the aesthetical distinction between living, lifelike, dead, and synthetic. Instinct was originally exhibited at the Oresman Gallery at Smith College under the advisorship of Lynne Yamamoto. Electroacoustic and computer music also drive her work in video. Performances for video engage in a dialogue between ritual, repetition, and sonic environment. She studied video with Lucretia Knapp and electroacoustic music with Daniel Warner. Rebecca currently lives and works in Northern Virginia as an artist and art educator.

::::Sebastian Krawczuk, Andreas Guskos & Jacek Mogilnicki
[website][ http://www.outdegree.com ]
[website][ http://myspace.com/outdegree ]
Sebastian Krawczuk – A free improvising musician from Washington DC, playing the electric upright bass with sound processors. Krawczuk has recently expanded his domain in modular synthesizers and computer music. Sebastian is a seasoned player, participating in a series of workshops in Baltimore, MD and performing in the Minijax and Electric Possible events in DC. He is a former member of the 10 String Trio of Washington DC, and is currently involved in projects to include: Outdegree - an "intra-development" experiment, Mystery Shopper - a duo with percussionist Jason Mullinax [Mosquito Death Squadron], Sneaky Pig - a duo with guitarist Richard Sheehe, the Asher-Krawczuk Duo – an ensemble with trumpeter Eli Asher, and a soundtrack contribution to Dual Nature, a film by Andreas Guskos. Past influences include punk, metal and free-improvised sounds while performing with bands in Szczecin, Poland, such as Baby Blue Eyes, Felicite Pueros and STUCKONCEILING.

Andreas Guskos – Works in the field of architecture; with artistic interests in design, experimental film and photography. He is especially interested in the interactions of sound, image and spacial properties; illustrating this through the manipulation of physical and virtual hybrid spaces. His resume includes numerous multimedia projects. Andreas has worked with musicians such as Martin Klapper and Martin Ježek. Specific works of recognition include “Glowing Mary”, a visual collaboration with well known musicians from Musica Genera. Performances of note in Europe: Operafonic Festival 2002 (Szczecin/Poland), Kanten Musikcaféen 2003 curated by Martin Klapper (Copenhagen/Denmark), Muzika Paka Festival 2003 (Nova Paka/Czech Republic), MS Stubnitz 2003 (Szczecin/Poland), Contemporary Art Center Laznia (Gdansk/Poland). More at www.art-logic.tk

Jacek Mogilnicki – improv/noise guitar player, computer music composer. Involved in multiple guitar projects in Stargard to include: bogk, Pink Queers, Bruce Lee, “wielcy maja swoje fanaberie Trio”. As a computer musician, focuses on narrowing boundaries of chaos. He is the author of soundtracks of Andreas Guskos experimental animations/films.

[Local Artists]

::::Birds in the Meadow
[website][ http://myspace.com/birdsinthemeadow ]
Birds in the Meadow is Marty McCavitt (improvised electronics), who creates layers of tight and calculated bursts of frantic glitching squeals and squalls that move from one end of the tonal spectrum to the next in a heartbeat.

::::Brian Jones Percussion Ensemble

::::Chefkirk
> [website][ http://tibprod.com/chefkirk.htm ]
Chefkirk is Roger Smith (Insects With Tits) a combination of improvised drone and harsh electronics squeezed from a minimal arsenal of glitchy instruments and feedback loops. The ever prolific Chefkirk, given the amount of releases he has produced since the inception of Chefkirk in 2003 has released records on TibProd, AudioBot, Brise-Cul, ScratchNSniff Entertainment, Retinascan, Carbon Records, 804noise and others. Chefkirk is a socially and politically charged venture, focusing mostly on the issue of animal rights. This theme shows up frequently in Chefkirk releases in some form or another, whether it's through quotes, artwork, or other abstract conceptions that promote the ethical treatment of animals.

::::Cristal
[website][ http://allisnumberrecords.com ]

The members of Cristal came together in a Richmond, Virginia kitchen over a batch of sangria in 2001. The band members, Jimmy Anthony, Bobby Donne (who is also a member of Labradford), and Greg Darden use a variety of electronic devices, sources, and recording locations to improvise and/or compose. The result can be beautiful, relaxing, chaotic or challenging, often all at once. Volume is critical.

“The threesome create tracks that mix drone-landscaping with surgical penis methods in a way that is sure to make you salute. By turns lilting, dark and noisesome, this music feels like a sharp fingernail circling your navel slowly inside a tightly shuttered room. Just be careful you don’t have anything in the way when they decide to slam the door shut. It might hurt.” – Byron Coley, the Wire

::::ENE
[webiste][ http://myspace.com/eneworld ]
Created in 1990, Robert Miller & Scott Hudgins continue to treat ENE as a soundtrack to an imaginary urban primativist gospel of uncertainty and joy bringing. Shamman's mystic cassette spirits spin in our studio, we record and also reproduce the events for live preformances. You are all shammans, mystics, cassettes, and spirits moving, colliding, dispersing and affecting us and you. That smell, is her pollictics and it is also a color to jaguars. This sound, a pressure of air and also a thought. Answers? Maybe....do you need to know right now?

::::Buer with Wrnlrd
[website][ http://uselessmedia.net ]
[website][ http://www.myspace.com/buermetal ]
[website][ http://myspace.com/wrnlrd.com ]
Buer is an unknown entity, a force of aural destruction existing of the shadow. Neither feedback laden dark ambient nor oppresive doom in its entirety, Buer's sound alone is its definition. Wrnlrd is "black noise metal".

::::Pataphonic

::::Projexorcism w/ Harm Stryker
[website][ http://www.multiultramedia.com/projexorcism.htm ]
[website][ http://harmstryker.org ]
804noise founders, Kenneth Yates (Caustic Castle) and Kelly Nourse (ConstantMauk) will perform as Harm Stryker, in a collaboration with Hockory/Asheville, NC artist Projexorcism.

Projexorcism induces seizures, warps minds, causes disorientation and should only be used after consulting a physician. The photons from four suspended 16mm projectors are digested & digitally regurgitated into a panoramic abstract collage of stroboscopic recontextualized weirdness. The visual carpet bombing is accompanied by the quad stuttering 16mm soundtrack & a bewildering array of experimental collaborators both old & new.

::::Some Awesome Radical Sound
[website][ http://myspace.com/someawesomeradicalsound ]
Some Awesome Radical Sound is an explosion out of the speakers of the slight surface noise soundsystem, a key resource in the sonic warefare that takes place in a future where music is the only weapon.

::::Stephen Vitiello, Nic Desantis, & Matt Flowers
[website][ http://stephenvitello.com/ ]
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. Originally from NYC he is now based in Richmond where he teaches in the department of Kinetic Imaging at VCU. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Scanner/Vitiello (Audiosphere/Sub-Rosa) and Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls). He has performed at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, the Tate Modern, London and The Kitchen, NY and all sorts of other places. Past collaborators have included Pauline Oliveros, Scanner, Yasunao Tone, Tony Conrad. For the 804 Noise festival Stephen will collaborate with video artists Matt Flowers and Nic Desantis.

::::Ting Ting Jahe
[website][ http://tingtingjahe.org ]
No, ting ting jahe doesn't exist, and it doesn't matter. what matters is the sounds around us at any given time, and the wonders they permit. any everyday occurrence and its sounds mixed with all other occurrences and their respective sounds exist in so many different persectives and realities than any ting ting jahe ever could. with ting ting jahe and its utter non-existence we find a contrary opinion on all this, and more.

::::To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie
[website][ http://myspace.com/tokillapettybourgeoisie ]
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoise is Jehna Wilhelm & Mark McGee. Former residents of Richmond, but 804noise collective members for life. From their new home in Minneapolis, they have been crafting the delicate art of glitch and ambient experimental pop music to a perfection.

::::Spongey
[website][ http://804noise.org/playlist.html ]
Obscure avant-garde sound enthusiast and long time member of the 804noise collective, will be schooling us on avant-jazz, eletro acoustic, noise, and experimental sounds through out the day between artist blocks.

[Record Labels / Magazines / Grass Roots Organizations / Etc.]

::::Clamor Magazine
[website][ http://www.clamormagazine.org ]
Based out of Toledo, OH with editors and publishers living in cities across the U.S. Clamor is a quarterly print magazine and online community of radical thought, art, and action. An iconoclast among its peers, Clamor is an unabashed celebration of self-determination, creativity, and shit-stirring. Clamor publishes content of, by, for, and with marginalized communities. From the kitchen table to shop floor, the barrio to the playground, the barbershop to the student center, it's old school meets new school in a battle for a better tomorrow. Clamor is a do-it-yourself guide to everyday revolution.

::::MT6 Records
[website][ http://www.MT6Records.com ]
An experimental/noise record label out of Baltimore, Maryland featuring artists Human Host, Newagehillbilly, The New Flesh, A) Torture Mechanism, Bo Lee Da, Heroin UK, Abiku, TempSoundSolutions, Myo, Hex Screw, The Dirt, ZIND, Forest Dwellers, Bad Liquor Pond, Mongoidian Glow, Asteroid Field, Baskettree, Wax and Wane, Down With Gender, Shelly Blake, EN.joyable(Russia), We Are The Musk Brigade, CAVEMEN!!, Cheif Pokawa, Mike Bell, Therom, Desensitized Robots, Passiou, The Wire Orchestra, Blakk Sweat, The Agrarians, RotGuts, Mother Orchid, The Wire Orchestra, USSA PleasureDome, Heirs of Rockafeller.

::::Public Guilt Records
[website][ http://www.publicguilt.com ]
Public Guilt is a small, DIY label which releases challenging music from a variety of artists that we feel deserve to be heard. PG is not a "single genre" label, so our releases vary from one to the next. This goes against "the music industry" on some level, as most labels find one thing and stick to it, but it makes perfest sense to us. We don't listen to >music that way, so why should we release it that way? Implied Sound is the 7" only companion label to Public Guilt. Current releases from: Destructo Swarmbots, The Psychic Paramount, Aluk Todolo, Cream Abdul Babar, Magicicada, DJ Still, Trephine, Strotter Inst. Upcoming releases from: Darsombra, Decimation Blvd, Perfect Teeth, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Dälek

::::Winds Measure Recordings
[website][ http://windsmeasurerecordings.net ]
A Brooklyn, NY based experimental and electro acoustic record label featuring artists like Albert Casais, Jeph Jerman, Greg Davis, Ben Owen, & Ting TIng Jahe.